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Tabletop exercise workspace
Practice the decisions before the emergency.
Configure a scenario, release each inject when your group is ready, capture observations, lead a hotwash, and leave with assigned improvement actions.
Controlled pace
Injects never release themselves
The facilitator decides when to reveal each update. There are no timers or simulated real-world alerts.
Useful outputs
Separate views for each audience
Print or download a participant brief, facilitator guide, and after-action report without mixing audience-only details.
Ready-to-run drill library
Choose a realistic starting point
Each guide explains the audience, objectives, suggested roles, setup tools, and private workflow without publishing facilitator-only injects or evaluation details.
Wildfire
Wildfire evacuation decision
A fast-moving wildfire tests alerting, early evacuation decisions, accountability, and support for people who may need extra time.
45–60 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Earthquake
Earthquake and lifeline disruption
A damaging earthquake tests immediate protective actions, injury and damage checks, utility decisions, and communications without normal connectivity.
45–60 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Severe weather
Severe storm shelter decision
Escalating severe weather tests alert monitoring, rapid movement to a safer location, accountability, and continuity when power is lost.
35–50 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Extreme heat and power outage
Extreme heat and prolonged power outage
An extended outage during extreme heat tests wellness checks, backup communications, relocation thresholds, and continuity for medical and accessibility needs.
45–60 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Flood
Flood evacuation with blocked routes
Rising water and changing road closures test official alert monitoring, an early evacuation decision, route verification, and accountability at a safe destination.
45–60 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Communications outage
Communications outage and radio-net activation
A broad communications outage tests offline official-information access, activation of a preplanned radio net, concise message handling, and participant accountability.
40–55 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Post-storm damage
Post-storm neighborhood damage assessment
A neighborhood team practices a safe, observation-only size-up, consistent damage records, and a concise internal summary after official warnings have ended.
50–70 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →Winter storm and power outage
Winter storm and extended outage
A prolonged winter outage tests official information monitoring, wellness checks, safe continuity decisions, and relocation before indoor conditions become unsafe.
45–60 minutes · 3 objectives · 4 facilitator-controlled injects
Open the drill guide →A complete, compact cycle
Configure → conduct → evaluate → hotwash → improve
The workflow is informed by common Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program practices, simplified for households, volunteer groups, schools, nonprofits, and small organizations. It is not an official HSEEP package or certification.
Simulation only
Every workspace and output is marked as an exercise. Do not use it to report or coordinate a real incident. For current conditions, use the Live Dashboard and follow official instructions.
Methodology and resources
HSEEP-informed, intentionally simplified
HazardNow adapts a compact exercise cycle for small groups; it does not claim HSEEP compliance, certification, or an official FEMA exercise package. For formal programs and primary guidance, use the official resources below.
More HazardNow tools
Practical planning helpers
Explore the rest of the standalone emergency planning tools. They are informational only and do not replace official alerts or instructions.
Emergency Alerts
AlertCheck
Check whether your emergency-alert plan has independent backup paths, find single points of failure, and print a private alert backup plan.
Private Resilience Planning
Hazard Passport
Pressure-test the household systems you depend on, find what fails first across six disruption scenarios, and save a private resilience snapshot in this browser.
Private Incident Operations
Incident Mode
Keep outage clocks, cold-food timers, runtime estimates, reminders, family check-ins, smoke and evacuation checklists, and incident notes in one offline-capable browser-local workspace.
Decision Support
Action Planner
Turn a developing hazard, alert, outage, or local concern into a simple action plan: check facts, protect people, prepare supplies, communicate, and decide next steps.
Local Risk History
FEMA Disaster Heatmap
Explore historical FEMA disaster declarations by county with a national heatmap, trend view, filters, and local declaration lookup.
Household Readiness
Readiness Gap Analyzer
Find the largest household preparedness gaps across water, food, power, communications, sanitation, evacuation, medical needs, pets, and local hazards.